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Seven years later, in 1952, they are still there. Hans, their captor, has told them of the war's progress; Germany, with its jet planes and guided missiles, is winning, and the collapse of the Allies must come soon. Dressed in civil defense uniform, he serves breakfast and dinner to his prisoners, thoughtfully supervises their exercise and frets like a mother if one of the men seems out of sorts...
...hills of eastern Cuba, 50 U.S. and Canadian citizens were caught-some to their own amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant...
...Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations involving...
...earned Melchior something less than an Equity minimum. As the tenor untied himself, grabbed a deer rifle and hustled out the door, his captor audience skedaddled back out the gate, taking with it $140,000 in boodle (jewelry and cash). Police bag by week's end: two of the four badmen, all but about $40,000 of their loot...
...children's book by Mrs. Margaret C. Hubbard, house mother of Holmes Hall, will be published Monday. The book, Boss Chombale, is based on Mrs. Hubbard's nine years of personal experience in Africa as a U.S. diplomat, a journalist, and a captor of wild animals, and is intended for children from...